Whenever anyone quite solicitously wondered how I coped with six months of preventive detention, I always said that I got away lightly and would cite Ajibade among other human rights and democracy activists given life imprisonment sentences, or who had spent well over a year in the Babangida/Abacha gulag, Ajibade having done three-and-a-half years before freedom came in the wake of his jailer's death.
Ọ ga-atụ onye ọbụla ihe m masịrị nke ukwuu n' anya mgbe ọbụla ka m si nagide mgbochi ntukpu ọnwa isii, ekwuru m mgbe ọbụla na obere ihe ka m ji pụta mana na-arụ Ajibade aka n' ime ndị na-ekwuchitere ndị na ọchịchị onye kwuo uche ya a na-emegbu emegbu ọnụ ha a mara ikpe itụ mkpọrọ ogologo ndụ ha, ma ọ bụ ndị nọgọrọ karịa otu afọ na mkpọrọ Babangida/Abacha, Ajibade mere afọ atọ na ọkara tupu nnwere onwe abịa ka onye tụrụ ya mkpọrọ nwụchara.